Job 5 Cross References - YLT

¹ Pray, call, is there any to answer thee? And unto which of the holy ones dost thou turn? ² For provocation slayeth the perverse, And envy putteth to death the simple, ³ I—I have seen the perverse taking root, And I mark his habitation straightway, ⁴ Far are his sons from safety, And they are bruised in the gate, And there is no deliverer. ⁵ Whose harvest the hungry doth eat, And even from the thorns taketh it, And the designing swallowed their wealth.
⁶ For sorrow cometh not forth from the dust, Nor from the ground springeth up misery. ⁷ For man to misery is born, And the sparks go high to fly. ⁸ Yet I—I inquire for God, And for God I give my word, ⁹ Doing great things, and there is no searching. Wonderful, till there is no numbering. ¹⁰ Who is giving rain on the face of the land, And is sending waters on the out-places. ¹¹ To set the low on a high place, And the mourners have been high in safety. ¹² Making void thoughts of the subtile, And their hands do not execute wisdom. ¹³ Capturing the wise in their subtilty, And the counsel of wrestling ones was hastened, ¹⁴ By day they meet darkness, And as night—they grope at noon. ¹⁵ And He saveth the wasted from their mouth, And from a strong hand the needy, ¹⁶ And there is hope to the poor, And perverseness hath shut her mouth.
¹⁷ Lo, the happiness of mortal man, God doth reprove him: And the chastisement of the Mighty despise not, ¹⁸ For He doth pain, and He bindeth up, He smiteth, and His hands heal. ¹⁹ In six distresses He delivereth thee, And in seven evil striketh not on thee. ²⁰ In famine He hath redeemed thee from death, And in battle from the hands of the sword. ²¹ When the tongue scourgeth thou art hid, And thou art not afraid of destruction, When it cometh. ²² At destruction and at hunger thou mockest, And of the beast of the earth, Thou art not afraid. ²³ (For with sons of the field is thy covenant, And the beast of the field Hath been at peace with thee.) ²⁴ And thou hast known that thy tent is peace, And inspected thy habitation, and errest not, ²⁵ And hast known that numerous is Thy seed, And thine offspring as the herb of the earth; ²⁶ Thou comest in full age unto the grave, As the going up of a stalk in its season. ²⁷ Lo, this—we searched it out—it is right, hearken; And thou, know for thyself!

² and he saith: —`Jehovah from Sinai hath come, And hath risen from Seir for them; He hath shone from mount Paran, And hath come with myriads of holy ones; At His right hand are springs for them. ³ Also He is loving the peoples; All His holy ones are in thy hand, And they—they sat down at thy foot, Each He lifteth up at thy words.

¹⁸ Lo, in His servants He putteth no credence, Nor in His messengers setteth praise.'

⁸ Of the secret counsel of God dost thou hear? And withdrawest thou unto thee wisdom? ⁹ What hast thou known, and we know not? Understandest thou—and it is not with us? ¹⁰ Both the gray-headed And the very aged are among us—Greater than thy father in days.

¹⁵ Lo, in His holy ones He putteth no credence, And the heavens have not been pure in His eyes.

³ For the holy ones who are in the land, And the honourable, all my delight is in them.

¹⁶ And they are envious of Moses in the camp, Of Aaron, Jehovah's holy one.

¹ Keep silent towards Me, O isles, And the peoples pass on to power, They come nigh, then they speak, `Together—to judgment we draw near.'

²¹ Bring near your cause, saith Jehovah, Bring nigh your mighty ones, saith the king of Jacob. ²² They bring nigh, and declare to us that which doth happen, The first things—what they are declare ye, And we set our heart, and know their latter end, Or the coming things cause us to hear. ²³ Declare the things that are coming hereafter, And we know that ye are gods, Yea, ye may do good or do evil, And we look around and see it together.

¹ Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ through the will of God, to the saints who are in Ephesus, and to the faithful in Christ Jesus:

¹ Therefore, we also having so great a cloud of witnesses set around us, every weight having put off, and the closely besetting sin, through endurance may we run the contest that is set before us,

¹ And Rachel seeth that she hath not borne to Jacob, and Rachel is envious of her sister, and saith unto Jacob, `Give me sons, and if there is none—I die.'

⁸ And it is displeasing to Saul exceedingly, and this thing is evil in his eyes, and he saith, `They have given to David myriads, and to me they have given the thousands, and more to him is only the kingdom;' ⁹ and Saul is eyeing David from that day and thenceforth.

⁴ (He is tearing himself in his anger.) For thy sake is earth forsaken? And removed is a rock from its place?

¹ To the Overseer. —By David. A fool hath said in his heart, `God is not;' They have done corruptly, They have done abominable actions, There is not a doer of good.

⁴ I have said to the boastful, `Be not boastful,' And to the wicked, `Raise not up a horn.'

⁶ A brutish man doth not know, And a fool understandeth not this; —

¹⁷ Fools, by means of their transgression, And by their iniquities, afflict themselves.

²² `Till when, ye simple, do ye love simplicity? And have scorners their scorning desired? And do fools hate knowledge? ²³ Turn back at my reproof, lo, I pour forth to you my spirit, I make known my words with you.

⁵ Understand, ye simple ones, prudence, And ye fools, understand the heart,

¹⁶ The fool—in a day is his anger known, And the prudent is covering shame.

⁹ Be not hasty in thy spirit to be angry, For anger in the bosom of fools resteth.

¹¹ And Ephraim is as a simple dove without heart, Egypt they called on—to Asshur they have gone.

⁹ And God saith unto Jonah: `Is doing good displeasing to thee, because of the gourd?' and he saith, `To do good is displeasing to me—unto death.'

⁸ and to those contentious, and disobedient, indeed, to the truth, and obeying the unrighteousness—indignation and wrath,

⁶ for of these there are those coming into the houses and leading captive the silly women, laden with sins, led away with desires manifold,

¹⁵ `Cursed is the man who maketh a graven and molten image, the abomination of Jehovah, work of the hands of an artificer, and hath put it in a secret place, —and all the people have answered and said, Amen. <sup>16</sup> `Cursed is He who is making light of his father and his mother, —and all the people have said, Amen. ¹⁷ `Cursed is he who is removing his neighbour's border, —and all the people have said, Amen. <sup>18</sup> `Cursed is he who is causing the blind to err in the way, —and all the people have said, Amen. ¹⁹ `Cursed is he who is turning aside the judgment of fatherless, sojourner, and widow, —and all the people have said, Amen. <sup>20</sup> `Cursed is he who is lying with his father's wife, for he hath uncovered his father's skirt, —and all the people have said, Amen. ²¹ `Cursed is he who is lying with any beast, —and all the people have said, Amen. <sup>22</sup> `Cursed is he who is lying with his sister, daughter of his father, or daughter of his mother, —and all the people have said, Amen. ²³ `Cursed is he who is lying with his mother-in-law, —and all the people have said, Amen. <sup>24</sup> `Cursed is he who is smiting his neighbour in secret, —and all the people have said, Amen. ²⁵ `Cursed is he who is taking a bribe to smite a person, innocent blood, —and all the people have said, Amen. <sup>26</sup> `Cursed is he who doth not establish the words of this law, to do them, —and all the people have said, Amen.

¹⁸ Light he is on the face of the waters, Vilified is their portion in the earth, He turneth not the way of vineyards.

⁸ For what is the hope of the profane, When He doth cut off? When God doth cast off his soul?

³⁵ I have seen the wicked terrible, And spreading as a green native plant, ³⁶ And he passeth away, and lo, he is not, And I seek him, and he is not found!

²⁵ Their tower is desolated, In their tents there is no dweller.

³ The peace of the wicked I see, That there are no bands at their death, ⁴ And their might is firm. ⁵ In the misery of mortals they are not, And with common men they are not plagued. ⁶ Therefore hath pride encircled them, Violence covereth them as a dress. ⁷ Their eye hath come out from fat. The imaginations of the heart transgressed; ⁸ They do corruptly, And they speak in the wickedness of oppression, From on high they speak. ⁹ They have set in the heavens their mouth, And their tongue walketh in the earth.

¹⁸ Only, in slippery places Thou dost set them, Thou hast caused them to fall to desolations. ¹⁹ How have they become a desolation as in a moment, They have been ended—consumed from terrors. ²⁰ As a dream from awakening, O Lord, In awaking, their image Thou despisest.

⁷ When the wicked flourish as a herb, And blossom do all workers of iniquity—For their being destroyed for ever and ever!

¹ Righteous art Thou, O Jehovah, When I plead towards thee, Only, judgments do I speak with Thee, Wherefore did the way of the wicked prosper? At rest have been all treacherous dealers. ² Thou hast planted them, yea, they have taken root, They go on, yea, they have made fruit, Near art Thou in their mouth, And far off from their reins. ³ And Thou, O Jehovah, Thou hast known me, Thou seest me, and hast tried my heart with Thee, Draw them away as sheep to slaughter, And separate them for a day of slaughter.

²⁰ for it hath been written in the book of Psalms: Let his lodging-place become desolate, and let no one be dwelling in it, and his oversight let another take.

⁵ Thou dost not bow thyself to them, nor serve them: for I, Jehovah thy God, am a zealous God, charging iniquity of fathers on sons, on the third generation, and on the fourth, of those hating Me,

¹⁹ And lo, a great wind hath come from over the wilderness, and striketh against the four corners of the house, and it falleth on the young men, and they are dead, and I am escaped—only I alone—to declare it to thee.'

¹⁰ The roaring of a lion, And the voice of a fierce lion, And teeth of young lions have been broken. ¹¹ An old lion is perishing without prey, And the whelps of the lioness do separate.

⁴ If thy sons have sinned before Him, And He doth send them away, By the hand of their transgression,

⁷ For Thou knowest that I am not wicked, And there is no deliverer from Thy hand.

¹⁶ From beneath his roots are dried up, And from above cut off is his crop. ¹⁷ His memorial hath perished from the land, And he hath no name on the street. ¹⁸ They thrust him from light unto darkness, And from the habitable earth cast him out. ¹⁹ He hath no continuator, Nor successor among his people, And none is remaining in his dwellings.

¹⁴ If his sons multiply—for them is a sword. And his offspring are not satisfied with bread.

² Lest he tear as a lion my soul, Rending, and there is no deliverer.

⁹ His sons are fatherless, and his wife a widow. ¹⁰ And wander continually do his sons, Yea, they have begged, And have sought out of their dry places. ¹¹ An exactor layeth a snare for all that he hath, And strangers spoil his labour. ¹² He hath none to extend kindness, Nor is there one showing favour to his orphans. ¹³ His posterity is for cutting off, In another generation is their name blotted out. ¹⁴ The iniquity of his fathers Is remembered unto Jehovah, And the sin of his mother is not blotted out. ¹⁵ They are before Jehovah continually, And He cutteth off from earth their memorial.

¹⁵⁵ Far from the wicked is salvation, For Thy statutes they have not sought.

⁵ O the happiness of the man Who hath filled his quiver with them, They are not ashamed, For they speak with enemies in the gate!

¹² For I have known—many are your transgressions, And mighty your sins, Adversaries of the righteous, taking ransoms, And the needy in the gate ye turned aside.

⁴ `Or those eighteen, on whom the tower in Siloam fell, and killed them; think ye that these became debtors beyond all men who are dwelling in Jerusalem? ⁵ No—I say to you, but, if ye may not reform, all ye in like manner shall perish.'

³³ The fruit of thy ground, and all thy labour, eat up doth a people whom thou hast not known; and thou hast been only oppressed and bruised all the days;

⁵¹ and it hath eaten the fruit of thy cattle, and the fruit of thy ground, till thou art destroyed; which leaveth not to thee corn, new wine, and oil, increase of thine oxen, and wealth of thy flock, till it hath destroyed thee.

³ And it hath been, if Israel hath sowed, that Midian hath come up, and Amalek, and the sons of the east, yea, they have come up against him, ⁴ and encamp against them, and destroy the increase of the land till thine entering Gaza; and they leave no sustenance in Israel, either sheep, or ox, or ass; ⁵ for they and their cattle come up, with their tents; they come in as the fulness of the locust for multitude, and of them and of their cattle there is no number, and they come into the land to destroy it. ⁶ And Israel is very weak from the presence of Midian, and the sons of Israel cry unto Jehovah.

¹¹ And the messenger of Jehovah cometh and sitteth under the oak which is in Ophrah, which is to Joash the Abi-Ezrite, and Gideon his son is beating out wheat in the wine-press, to remove it from the presence of the Midianites;

¹¹ and Jehovah bringeth in against them the heads of the host that the king of Asshur hath, and they capture Manasseh among the thickets, and bind him with brazen fetters, and cause him to go to Babylon.

¹⁵ and Sheba doth fall, and take them, and the young men they have smitten by the mouth of the sword, and I am escaped—only I alone—to declare it to thee.'

¹⁷ While this one is speaking another also hath come and saith, `Chaldeans made three heads, and rush on the camels, and take them, and the young men they have smitten by the mouth of the sword, and I am escaped—only I alone—to declare it to thee.'

³ And Jehovah saith unto the Adversary, `Hast thou set thy heart unto My servant Job because there is none like him in the land, a man perfect and upright, fearing God and turning aside from evil? and still he is keeping hold on his integrity, and thou dost move Me against him to swallow him up for nought!'

⁶ At peace are the tents of spoilers, And those provoking God have confidence, He into whose hand God hath brought.

⁸ For he is sent into a net by his own feet, And on a snare he doth walk habitually. ⁹ Seize on the heel doth a gin, Prevail over him do the designing. ¹⁰ Hidden in the earth is his cord, And his trap on the path.

¹⁵ Wealth he hath swallowed, and doth vomit it. From his belly God driveth it out.

⁸ Sworn hath Jehovah by His right hand, Even by the arm of His strength: `I give not thy corn any more as food for thine enemies, Nor do sons of a stranger drink thy new wine, For which thou hast laboured.

³⁴ Devoured us, crushed us, hath Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, He hath set us as an empty vessel, He hath swallowed us as a dragon, He hath filled his belly with my dainties, He hath driven us away.

⁴⁴ And I have seen after Bel in Babylon, And I have brought forth that which he swallowed—from his mouth, And flow no more unto him do nations, Also the wall of Babylon hath fallen.

⁵ The Lord hath been as an enemy, He hath swallowed up Israel, He hath swallowed up all her palaces, He hath destroyed His fortresses, And He multiplieth in the daughter of Judah Mourning and moaning.

¹⁶ Opened against thee their mouth have all thine enemies, They have hissed, yea, they gnash the teeth, They have said: `We have swallowed her up, Surely this is the day that we looked for, We have found—we have seen.'

⁷ For wind they sow, and a hurricane they reap, Stalk it hath none—a shoot not yielding grain, If so be it yield—strangers do swallow it up.

²⁷ If not—the anger of an enemy I fear, Lest their adversaries know—Lest they say, Our hand is high, And Jehovah hath not wrought all this.

⁹ and ye have seen, if the way of its own border it goeth up to Beth-Shemesh—He hath done to us this great evil; and if not, then we have known that His hand hath not come against us; an accident it hath been to us.'

²⁹ And He giveth rest, and who maketh wrong? And hideth the face, and who beholdeth it? And in reference to a nation and to a man, It is the same.

⁷ For we were consumed in Thine anger, And in Thy fury we have been troubled.

⁷ Forming light, and preparing darkness, Making peace, and preparing evil, I am Jehovah, doing all these things.'

³⁸ From the mouth of the Most High Go not forth the evils and the good.

⁴ They have spoken words, To swear falsehood in making a covenant, And flourished as a poisonous herb hath judgment, on the furrows of a field.

⁶ Is a trumpet blown in a city, And do people not tremble? Is there affliction in a city, And Jehovah hath not done it ?

¹⁵ looking diligently over lest any one be failing of the grace of God, lest any root of bitterness springing up may give trouble, and through this many may be defiled;

¹⁷ And to the man He said, `Because thou hast hearkened to the voice of thy wife, and dost eat of the tree concerning which I have charged thee, saying, Thou dost not eat of it, cursed is the ground on thine account; in sorrow thou dost eat of it all days of thy life, ¹⁸ and thorn and bramble it doth bring forth to thee, and thou hast eaten the herb of the field; ¹⁹ by the sweat of thy face thou dost eat bread till thy return unto the ground, for out of it hast thou been taken, for dust thou art, and unto dust thou turnest back.'

¹ Man, born of woman! Of few days, and full of trouble!

⁸ Thou hast set our iniquities before Thee, Our hidden things at the light of Thy face, ⁹ For all our days pined away in Thy wrath, We consumed our years as a meditation.

⁸ All these things are wearying; a man is not able to speak, the eye is not satisfied by seeing, nor filled is the ear from hearing.

²² For what hath been to a man by all his labour, and by the thought of his heart that he laboured at under the sun?

¹⁵ As he came out from the belly of his mother, naked he turneth back to go as he came, and he taketh not away anything of his labour, that doth go in his hand. ¹⁶ And this also is a painful evil, just as he came, so he goeth, and what advantage is to him who laboureth for wind? ¹⁷ Also all his days in darkness he consumeth, and sadness, and wrath, and sickness abound.

¹³ No temptation hath taken you—except human; and God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above what ye are able, but He will make, with the temptation, also the outlet, for your being able to bear it .

⁷ and Jacob feareth exceedingly, and is distressed, and he divideth the people who are with him, and the flock, and the herd, and the camels, into two camps, ⁸ and saith, `If Esau come in unto the one camp, and have smitten it—then the camp which is left hath been for an escape.'
<sup>9</sup> And Jacob saith, `God of my father Abraham, and God of my father Isaac, Jehovah who saith unto me, Turn back to thy land, and to thy kindred, and I do good with thee: ¹⁰ I have been unworthy of all the kind acts, and of all the truth which Thou hast done with thy servant—for, with my staff I passed over this Jordan, and now I have become two camps. ¹¹ `Deliver me, I pray Thee, from the hand of my brother, from the hand of Esau: for I am fearing him, less he come and have smitten me—mother beside sons; ¹² and Thou—Thou hast said, I certainly do good with thee, and have set thy seed as the sand of the sea, which is not numbered because of the multitude.'

¹² And when he is in distress he hath appeased the face of Jehovah his God, and is humbled exceedingly before the God of his fathers, ¹³ and prayeth unto Him, and He is entreated of him, and heareth his supplication, and bringeth him back to Jerusalem, to his kingdom, and Manasseh knoweth that Jehovah—He is God.

⁵ If thou dost seek early unto God, And unto the Mighty makest supplication,

²¹ Acquaint thyself, I pray thee, with Him, And be at peace, Thereby thine increase is good.

²⁷ Thou dost make supplication unto Him, And He doth hear thee, And thy vows thou completest.

⁵ Roll on Jehovah thy way, And trust upon Him, and He worketh,

¹⁵ And call Me in a day of adversity, I deliver thee, and thou honourest Me.

¹ To the Overseer, for Jeduthun. —A Psalm of Asaph. My voice is to God, and I cry, my voice is to God, And He hath given ear unto me. ² In a day of my distress the Lord I sought, My hand by night hath been spread out, And it doth not cease, My soul hath refused to be comforted.

¹ And Jonah prayeth unto Jehovah his God from the bowels of the fish. ² And he saith: I called, because of my distress, to Jehovah, And He doth answer me, From the belly of sheol I have cried, Thou hast heard my voice. ³ When Thou dost cast me into the deep, Into the heart of the seas, Then the flood doth compass me, All Thy breakers and Thy billows have passed over me. ⁴ And I—I said: I have been cast out from before Thine eyes, (Yet I add to look unto Thy holy temple!) ⁵ Compassed me have waters unto the soul, The deep doth compass me, The weed is bound to my head. ⁶ To the cuttings of mountains I have come down, The earth, her bars are behind me to the age. And Thou bringest up from the pit my life, O Jehovah my God. ⁷ In the feebleness within me of my soul Jehovah I have remembered, And come in unto Thee doth my prayer, Unto Thy holy temple.

¹² for which cause also these things I suffer, but I am not ashamed, for I have known in whom I have believed, and have been persuaded that he is able that which I have committed to him to guard—to that day.

²³ who being reviled—was not reviling again, suffering—was not threatening, and was committing himself to Him who is judging righteously,

¹⁹ so that also those suffering according to the will of god, as to a stedfast Creator, let them commit their own souls in good doing.

¹⁰ Doing great things till there is no searching, And wonderful, till there is no numbering.

⁷ By searching dost thou find out God? Unto perfection find out the Mighty One? ⁸ Heights of the heavens! —what dost thou? Deeper than Sheol! —what knowest thou? ⁹ Longer than earth is its measure, And broader than the sea.

⁵ The Rephaim are formed, Beneath the waters, also their inhabitants. ⁶ Naked is Sheol over-against Him, And there is no covering to destruction. ⁷ Stretching out the north over desolation, Hanging the earth upon nothing, ⁸ Binding up the waters in His thick clouds, And the cloud is not rent under them. ⁹ Taking hold of the face of the throne, Spreading over it His cloud. ¹⁰ A limit He hath placed on the waters, Unto the boundary of light with darkness. ¹¹ Pillars of the heavens do tremble, And they wonder because of His rebuke. ¹² By His power He hath quieted the sea, And by His understanding smitten the proud. ¹³ By His Spirit the heavens He beautified, Formed hath His hand the fleeing serpent. ¹⁴ Lo, these are the borders of His way, And how little a matter is heard of Him, And the thunder of His might Who doth understand?

⁵ God thundereth with His voice wonderfully, Doing great things and we know not.

³ `Who is this, hiding counsel without knowledge?' Therefore, I have declared, and understand not, Too wonderful for me, and I know not.

⁵ Much hast Thou done, Jehovah my God; Thy wonders and Thy thoughts toward us, There is none to arrange unto Thee, I declare and speak: They have been more than to be numbered.

¹⁸ Blessed is Jehovah God, God of Israel, He alone is doing wonders,

¹⁰ For great art Thou, and doing wonders, Thou art God Thyself alone.

¹⁸ I recount them! than the sand they are more, I have waked, and I am still with Thee.

²⁸ Hast thou not known? hast thou not heard? The God of the age—Jehovah, Preparer of the ends of the earth, Is not wearied nor fatigued, There is no searching of His understanding.

³³ O depth of riches, and wisdom and knowledge of God! how unsearchable His judgments, and untraceable His ways!

²⁶ In His making for the rain a limit, And a way for the brightness of the voices,

²⁸ Which clouds do drop, They distil on man abundantly.

²⁶ To cause it to rain on a land—no man, A wilderness—no man in it. ²⁷ To satisfy a desolate and waste place, And to cause to shoot up The produce of the tender grass? ²⁸ Hath the rain a father? Or who hath begotten the drops of dew?

⁹ Thou hast inspected the earth, and waterest it, Thou makest it very rich, the rivulet of God is full of water, Thou preparest their corn, When thus Thou dost prepare it, ¹⁰ Its ridges have been filled, Deepened hath been its furrow, With showers Thou dost soften it, Its springing up Thou blessest. ¹¹ Thou hast crowned the year of Thy goodness, And Thy paths drop fatness.

⁸ Who is covering the heavens with clouds, Who is preparing for the earth rain, Who is causing grass to spring up on mountains,

²⁴ And they have not said in their heart, `Let us fear, we pray you, Jehovah our God, who is giving rain, The sprinkling and the gathered, in its season, The appointed weeks of harvest He keepeth for us.'

¹³ At the voice He giveth forth, A multitude of waters is in the heavens, And He causeth vapours to come up from the end of the earth, Lightnings for rain He hath made, And bringeth out wind from His treasures.

²² Are there among the vanities of the nations any causing rain? And do the heavens give showers? Art not Thou He, O Jehovah our God? And we wait for thee, for Thou—Thou hast done all these!

⁷ And I also—I have withheld from you the rain. While yet three months to harvest, And I have sent rain on one city, And on another city I do not send rain, One portion is rained on, And the portion on which it raineth not withereth.

¹⁷ though, indeed, without witness He did not leave himself, doing good—from heaven giving rains to us, and fruitful seasons, filling our hearts with food and gladness;'

²⁷ A habitation is the eternal God, And beneath are arms age-during. And He casteth out from thy presence the enemy, and saith, `Destroy!'

⁷ Jehovah dispossesseth, and He maketh rich, He maketh low, yea, He maketh high. ⁸ He raiseth from the dust the poor, From a dunghill He lifteth up the needy, To cause them to sit with nobles, Yea, a throne of honour He doth cause them to inherit, For to Jehovah are the fixtures of earth, And He setteth on them the habitable world.

¹⁴ Because in Me he hath delighted, I also deliver him—I set him on high, Because he hath known My name.

⁴¹ And setteth on high the needy from affliction, And placeth families as a flock.

⁷ He is raising up from the dust the poor, From a dunghill He exalteth the needy.

²⁴ And known have all trees of the field That I, Jehovah, have made low the high tree, I have set on high the low tree, I have dried up the moist tree, And I have caused the dry tree to flourish, I, Jehovah, have spoken, and have done it!'

⁵² He brought down the mighty from thrones, And He exalted the lowly, ⁵³ The hungry He did fill with good, And the rich He sent away empty,

²¹ `Happy those hungering now—because ye shall be filled. `Happy those weeping now—because ye shall laugh.

⁹ And let the brother who is low rejoice in his exaltation,

⁶ and greater grace he doth give, wherefore he saith, `God against proud ones doth set Himself up, and to lowly ones He doth give grace?' ⁷ be subject, then, to God; stand up against the devil, and he will flee from you; ⁸ draw nigh to God, and He will draw nigh to you; cleanse hands, ye sinners! and purify hearts, ye two-souled! ⁹ be exceeding afflicted, and mourn, and weep, let your laughter to mourning be turned, and the joy to heaviness; ¹⁰ be made low before the Lord, and He shall exalt you.

³ Blessed is the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who, according to the abundance of His kindness did beget us again to a living hope, through the rising again of Jesus Christ out of the dead,

¹⁰ And the God of all grace, who did call you to His age-during glory in Christ Jesus, having suffered a little, Himself make you perfect, establish, strengthen, settle you;

¹⁵ And it cometh to pass, when our enemies have heard that it hath been known to us, and God doth frustrate their counsel, and we turn back, all of us, unto the wall, each unto his work;

¹⁶ With Him are strength and wisdom, His the deceived and deceiver. ¹⁷ Causing counsellors to go away a spoil, And judges He maketh foolish.

¹¹ For they stretched out against Thee evil, They devised a wicked device, they prevail not,

¹⁰ Jehovah made void the counsel of nations, He disallowed the thoughts of the peoples. ¹¹ The counsel of Jehovah to the age standeth, The thoughts of His heart to all generations.

¹⁷ For the arms of the wicked are shivered, And Jehovah is sustaining the righteous.

³⁰ There is no wisdom, nor understanding, Nor counsel, over-against Jehovah.

¹⁰ Take counsel, and it is broken, Speak a word, and it doth not stand, Because of Emmanu-El!'

³ And emptied out hath been in its midst the spirit of Egypt. And its counsel I swallow up, And they have sought unto the idols, And unto the charmers, And unto those having familiar spirits, And unto the wizards.

³⁶ And a messenger of Jehovah goeth out, and smiteth in the camp of Asshur a hundred and eighty and five thousand; and men rise early in the morning, and lo, all of them are dead corpses.

¹¹ And Peter having come to himself, said, `Now I have known of a truth that the Lord did sent forth His messenger, and did deliver me out of the hand of Herod, and all the expectation of the people of the Jews;'

¹² And day having come, certain of the Jews having made a concourse, did anathematize themselves, saying neither to eat nor to drink till they may kill Paul; ¹³ and they were more than forty who made this conspiracy by oath, ¹⁴ who having come near to the chief priests and to the elders said, `With an anathema we did anathematize ourselves—to taste nothing till we have killed Paul; <sup>15</sup> now, therefore, ye, signify ye to the chief captain, with the sanhedrim, that to-morrow he may bring him down unto you, as being about to know more exactly the things concerning him; and we, before his coming nigh, are ready to put him to death.' <sup>16</sup> And the son of Paul's sister having heard of the lying in wait, having gone and entered into the castle, told Paul, <sup>17</sup> and Paul having called near one of the centurions, said, `This young man lead unto the chief captain, for he hath something to tell him.' ¹⁸ He indeed, then, having taken him, brought him unto the chief captain, and saith, `The prisoner Paul, having called me near, asked me this young man to bring unto thee, having something to say to thee.' <sup>19</sup> And the chief captain having taken him by the hand, and having withdrawn by themselves, inquired, `What is that which thou hast to tell me?' ²⁰ and he said—`The Jews agreed to request thee, that to-morrow to the sanhedrim thou mayest bring down Paul, as being about to enquire something more exactly concerning him; <sup>21</sup> thou, therefore, mayest thou not yield to them, for there lie in wait for him of them more than forty men, who did anathematize themselves—not to eat nor to drink till they kill him, and now they are ready, waiting for the promise from thee.' <sup>22</sup> The chief captain, then, indeed, let the young man go, having charged him to tell no one, `that these things thou didst shew unto me;'

³¹ and David declared, saying, `Ahithophel is among the conspirators with Absalom;' and David saith, `Make foolish, I pray Thee, the counsel of Ahithophel, O Jehovah.'

³⁴ and if to the city thou dost turn back, and hast said to Absalom, Thy servant I am, O king; servant of thy father I am also hitherto, and now, I am also thy servant; then thou hast made void for me the counsel of Ahithophel;

²³ And Ahithophel hath seen that his counsel was not done, and he saddleth the ass, and riseth and goeth unto his house, unto his city, and giveth charge unto his household, and strangleth himself, and dieth, and he is buried in the burying-place of his father.

⁴ And the king saith, `Who is in the court?' —and Haman hath come in to the outer court of the house of the king, to say to the king to hang Mordecai on the tree that he had prepared for him— <sup>5</sup> and the servants of the king say unto him, `Lo, Haman is standing in the court;' and the king saith, `Let him come in.' <sup>6</sup> And Haman cometh in, and the king saith to him, `What—to do with the man in whose honour the king hath delighted?' And Haman saith in his heart, `To whom doth the king delight to do honour more than myself?' <sup>7</sup> And Haman saith unto the king, `The man in whose honour the king hath delighted, ⁸ let them bring in royal clothing that the king hath put on himself, and a horse on which the king hath ridden, and that the royal crown be put on his head, ⁹ and to give the clothing and the horse into the hand of a man of the heads of the king, the chiefs, and they have clothed the man in whose honour the king hath delighted, and caused him to ride on the horse in a broad place of the city, and called before him: Thus it is done to the man in whose honour the king hath delighted.' ¹⁰ And the king saith to Haman, `Haste, take the clothing and the horse, as thou hast spoken, and do so to Mordecai the Jew, who is sitting in the gate of the king; there doth not fall a thing of all that thou hast spoken.' <sup>11</sup> And Haman taketh the clothing, and the horse, and clothed Mordecai, and causeth him to ride in a broad place of the city, and calleth before him, `Thus it is done to the man in whose honour the king hath delighted.'

¹⁰ And they hang Haman upon the tree that he had prepared for Mordecai, and the fury of the king hath lain down.

²⁵ and in her coming in before the king, he said with the letter, `Let his evil device that he devised against the Jews turn back upon his own head,' and they have hanged him and his sons on the tree,

¹⁵ A pit he hath prepared, and he diggeth it, And he falleth into a ditch he maketh. ¹⁶ Return doth his perverseness on his head, And on his crown his violence cometh down.

¹⁵ Sunk have nations in a pit they made, In a net that they hid hath their foot been captured. ¹⁶ Jehovah hath been known, Judgment He hath done, By a work of his hands Hath the wicked been snared. Meditation. Selah.

²⁶ With the pure Thou showest Thyself pure, And with the perverse showest Thyself a wrestler,

⁷ For without cause they hid for me their netpit, Without cause they digged for my soul. ⁸ Meet him doth desolation—he knoweth not, And his net that he hid catcheth him, For desolation he falleth into it.

³² For an abomination to Jehovah is the perverted, And with the upright is His secret counsel.

⁵¹ He did powerfully with His arm, He scattered abroad the proud in the thought of their heart,

¹⁹ for it hath been written, `I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and the intelligence of the intelligent I will bring to nought;' ²⁰ where is the wise? where the scribe? where a disputer of this age? did not God make foolish the wisdom of this world?

¹⁹ for the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God, for it hath been written, `Who is taking the wise in their craftiness;'

²⁹ and thou hast been gropling at noon, as the blind gropeth in darkness; and thou dost not cause thy ways to prosper; and thou hast been only oppressed and plundered all the days, and there is no saviour.

²⁵ They feel darkness, and not light, He causeth them to wander as a drunkard.

¹⁹ The way of the wicked is as darkness, They have not known at what they stumble.

¹⁰ We feel like the blind for the wall, Yea, as without eyes we feel, We have stumbled at noon as at twilight, In desolate places as the dead.

⁹ And it hath come to pass in that day, An affirmation of the Lord Jehovah, I have caused the sun to go in at noon, And caused darkness on the land in a day of light,

¹⁰ The roaring of a lion, And the voice of a fierce lion, And teeth of young lions have been broken.

¹⁴ Thou hast seen, For Thou perverseness and anger beholdest; By giving into Thy hand, On Thee doth the afflicted leave it, Of the fatherless Thou hast been an helper.

¹⁷ The desire of the humble Thou hast heard, O Jehovah. Thou preparest their heart; Thou causest Thine ear to attend,

¹⁰ All my bones say, `Jehovah, who is like Thee, Delivering the poor from the stronger than he, And the poor and needy from his plunderer.'

⁴ He judgeth the poor of the people, Giveth deliverance to the sons of the needy, And bruiseth the oppressor.

¹² For he delivereth the needy who crieth, And the poor when he hath no helper, ¹³ He hath pity on the poor and needy, And the souls of the needy he saveth,

³¹ For He standeth at the right hand of the needy, To save from those judging his soul.

¹² I have known that Jehovah doth execute The judgment of the afflicted, The judgment of the needy.

⁷ `And against all the sons of Israel a dog sharpeneth not its tongue, from man even unto beast, so that ye know that Jehovah doth make a separation between the Egyptians and Israel;

⁸ He raiseth from the dust the poor, From a dunghill He lifteth up the needy, To cause them to sit with nobles, Yea, a throne of honour He doth cause them to inherit, For to Jehovah are the fixtures of earth, And He setteth on them the habitable world. ⁹ The feet of His saints He keepeth, And the wicked in darkness are silent, For not by power doth man become mighty.

¹⁸ For not for ever is the needy forgotten, The hope of the humble lost to the age.

¹¹ And the king doth rejoice in God, Boast himself doth every one swearing by Him, But stopped is the mouth of those speaking lies!

⁴² The upright do see and rejoice, And all perversity hath shut her mouth.

³² And what doth one answer the messengers of a nation? `That Jehovah hath founded Zion, And in it do the poor of His people trust!'

¹² Turn back to a fenced place, Ye prisoners of the hope, Even to-day a second announcer I restore to thee.

¹⁹ And we have known that as many things as the law saith, to those in the law it doth speak, that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may come under judgment to God;

¹² O the happiness of the man Whom Thou instructest, O Jah, And out of Thy law teachest him,

¹¹ Chastisement of Jehovah, my son, despise not, And be not vexed with His reproof, ¹² For whom Jehovah loveth He reproveth, Even as a father the son He is pleased with.

¹⁸ I have surely heard Ephraim bemoaning himself, `Thou hast chastised me, And I am chastised, as a heifer not taught, Turn me back, and I turn back, For thou art Jehovah my God.

⁵ and ye have forgotten the exhortation that doth speak fully with you as with sons, `My son, be not despising chastening of the Lord, nor be faint, being reproved by Him, ⁶ for whom the Lord doth love He doth chasten, and He scourgeth every son whom He receiveth;' ⁷ if chastening ye endure, as to sons God beareth Himself to you, for who is a son whom a father doth not chasten? ⁸ and if ye are apart from chastening, of which all have become partakers, then bastards are ye, and not sons. ⁹ Then, indeed, fathers of our flesh we have had, chastising us, and we were reverencing them; shall we not much rather be subject to the Father of the spirits, and live? ¹⁰ for they, indeed, for a few days, according to what seemed good to them, were chastening, but He for profit, to be partakers of His separation; ¹¹ and all chastening for the present, indeed, doth not seem to be of joy, but of sorrow, yet afterward the peaceable fruit of righteousness to those exercised through it—it doth yield.

¹² Happy the man who doth endure temptation, because, becoming approved, he shall receive the crown of the life, which the Lord did promise to those loving Him.

¹¹ lo, we call happy those who are enduring; the endurance of Job ye heard of, and the end of the Lord ye have seen, that very compassionate is the Lord, and pitying.

¹⁹ `As many as I love, I do convict and chasten; be zealous, then, and reform;

³⁹ See ye, now, that I—I am He, And there is no god with Me: I put to death, and I keep alive; I have smitten, and I heal; And there is not from My hand a deliverer,

⁶ Jehovah putteth to death, and keepeth alive, He bringeth down to Sheol, and bringeth up.

³ Who is giving healing to the broken of heart, And is binding up their griefs.

²⁶ And the light of the moon hath been as the light of the sun, And the light of the sun is sevenfold, As the light of seven days, In the day of Jehovah's binding up the breach of His people, When the stroke of its wound He healeth.

¹ `Come, and we turn back unto Jehovah, For He hath torn, and He doth heal us, He doth smite, and He bindeth us up.

¹⁹ Many are the evils of the righteous, Out of them all doth Jehovah deliver him.

³ For He delivereth thee from the snare of a fowler, From a calamitous pestilence. ⁴ With His pinion He covereth thee over, And under His wings thou dost trust, A shield and buckler is His truth. ⁵ Thou art not afraid of fear by night, Of arrow that flieth by day, ⁶ Of pestilence in thick darkness that walketh, Of destruction that destroyeth at noon, ⁷ There fall at thy side a thousand, And a myriad at thy right hand, Unto thee it cometh not nigh. ⁸ But with thine eyes thou lookest, And the reward of the wicked thou seest,
⁹ (For Thou, O Jehovah, art my refuge,) The Most High thou madest thy habitation. ¹⁰ Evil happeneth not unto thee, And a plague cometh not near thy tent,

¹⁶ For seven times doth the righteous fall and rise, And the wicked stumble in evil.

⁸ For we do not wish you to be ignorant, brethren, of our tribulation that happened to us in Asia, that we were exceedingly burdened above our power, so that we despaired even of life;

⁹ The Lord hath known to rescue pious ones out of temptation, and unrighteous ones to a day of judgment, being punished, to keep,

⁷ and God sendeth me before you, to place of you a remnant in the land, and to give life to you by a great escape;

⁶ and the ravens are bringing to him bread and flesh in the morning, and bread and flesh in the evening, and of the brook he drinketh.

³ Though a host doth encamp against me, My heart doth not fear, Though war riseth up against me, In this I am confident.

¹⁹ To deliver from death their soul, And to keep them alive in famine.

¹⁹ They are not ashamed in a time of evil, And in days of famine they are satisfied.

⁷ A brother doth no one at all ransom, He doth not give to God his atonement.

¹⁰ Who is giving deliverance to kings, Who is freeing David His servant from the sword of evil.

³ Jehovah causeth not the soul of the righteous to hunger, And the desire of the wicked He thrusteth away.

¹⁶ He high places doth inhabit, Strongholds of rock are his high tower, His bread hath been given, his waters stedfast.

¹⁴ From the hand of Sheol I do ransom them, From death I redeem them, Where is thy plague, O death? Where thy destruction, O Sheol? Repentance is hid from Mine eyes.

¹⁷ Though the fig-tree doth not flourish, And there is no produce among vines, Failed hath the work of the olive, And fields have not yielded food, Cut off from the fold hath been the flock, And there is no herd in the stalls.

⁶ and ye shall begin to hear of wars, and reports of wars; see, be not troubled, for it behoveth all these to come to pass, but the end is not yet.

²⁰ Thou hast wrought for those trusting in Thee, Before sons of men. Thou hidest them in the secret place of Thy presence, From artifices of man, Thou concealest them in a tabernacle, From the strife of tongues.

²¹ Sweeter than honey hath been his mouth, And his heart is war! Softer have been his words than oil, And they are drawn swords .

⁴ My soul is in the midst of lions, I lie down among flames—sons of men, Their teeth are a spear and arrows, And their tongue a sharp sword.

⁵ Thou art not afraid of fear by night, Of arrow that flieth by day, ⁶ Of pestilence in thick darkness that walketh, Of destruction that destroyeth at noon, ⁷ There fall at thy side a thousand, And a myriad at thy right hand, Unto thee it cometh not nigh.

¹⁸ A rash speaker is like piercings of a sword, And the tongue of the wise is healing.

¹⁷ No weapon formed against thee prospereth, And every tongue rising against thee, In judgment thou condemnest. This is the inheritance of the servants of Jehovah, And their righteousness from me, an affirmation of Jehovah!

¹⁸ And they say, Come, And we devise against Jeremiah devices, For law doth not perish from the priest, Nor counsel from the wise, Nor the word from the prophet, Come, and we smite him with the tongue, And we do not attend to any of his words.

⁵ so also the tongue is a little member, and doth boast greatly; lo, a little fire how much wood it doth kindle! ⁶ and the tongue is a fire, the world of the unrighteousness, so the tongue is set in our members, which is spotting our whole body, and is setting on fire the course of nature, and is set on fire by the gehenna. ⁷ For every nature, both of beasts and of fowls, both of creeping things and things of the sea, is subdued, and hath been subdued, by the human nature, ⁸ and the tongue no one of men is able to subdue, it is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison,

²¹ this is the word that Jehovah spake concerning him: `Trampled on thee—laughed at thee, Hath the virgin daughter of Zion Behind thee shaken the head—Hath the daughter of Jerusalem?

¹³ On lion and asp thou treadest, Thou trampest young lion and dragon.

⁹ No lion is there, yea, a destructive beast Ascendeth it not, it is not found there, And walked have the redeemed,

²⁵ Wolf and lamb do feed as one, And a lion as an ox eateth straw, As to the serpent—dust is its food, They do no evil, nor destroy, In all My holy mountain, said Jehovah!

²⁵ And I have made for them a covenant of peace, And caused evil beasts to cease out of the land, And they have dwelt in a wilderness confidently, And they have slept in forests.

¹⁸ And I have made to them a covenant in that day, with the beast of the field, And with the fowl of the heavens, And the creeping thing of the ground, And bow, and sword, and war I break from off the land, And have caused them to lie down confidently.

⁶ `And I have given peace in the land, and ye have lain down, and there is none causing trembling; and I have caused evil beasts to cease out of the land, and the sword doth not pass over into your land.

¹² On the hands they bear thee up, Lest thou smite against a stone thy foot. ¹³ On lion and asp thou treadest, Thou trampest young lion and dragon.

⁶ And a wolf hath sojourned with a lamb, And a leopard with a kid doth lie down, And calf, and young lion, and fatling are together, And a little youth is leader over them. ⁷ And cow and bear do feed, Together lie down their young ones, And a lion as an ox eateth straw. ⁸ And played hath a suckling by the hole of an asp, And on the den of a cockatrice Hath the weaned one put his hand. ⁹ Evil they do not, nor destroy in all My holy mountain, For full hath been the earth with the knowledge of Jehovah, As the waters are covering the sea.

¹⁵ `If an evil beast I cause to pass through the land, and it hath bereaved, and it hath been a desolation, without any passing through because of the beast— ¹⁶ these three men in its midst: I live—an affirmation of the Lord Jehovah—neither sons nor daughters do they deliver; they alone are delivered, and the land is a desolation.

²² my God hath sent His messenger, and hath shut the lions' mouths, and they have not injured me: because that before Him purity hath been found in me; and also before thee, O king, injury I have not done.'

³⁸ for I am persuaded that neither death, nor life, nor messengers, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, ³⁹ nor things about to be, nor height, nor depth, nor any other created thing, shall be able to separate us from the love of god, that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

⁶ `Blessed art thou in thy coming in, and blessed art thou in thy going out.

³ And David cometh in—and his men—unto the city, and lo, burnt with fire, and their wives, and their sons, and their daughters have been taken captive!

⁶ If pure and upright thou art, Surely now He waketh for thee, And hath completed The habitation of thy righteousness.

⁶ The light hath been dark in his tent, And his lamp over him is extinguished.

¹⁵ It dwelleth in his tent—out of his provender, Scattered over his habitation is sulphur.

²¹ Only these are tabernacles of the perverse, And this the place God hath not known.

⁷ Wherefore do the wicked live? They have become old, Yea, they have been mighty in wealth. ⁸ Their seed is established, Before their face with them, And their offspring before their eyes. ⁹ Their houses are peace without fear, Nor is a rod of God upon them.

¹³ His soul in good doth remain, And his seed doth possess the land.

¹⁰ Evil happeneth not unto thee, And a plague cometh not near thy tent,

⁴ They wandered in a wilderness, in a desert by the way, A city of habitation they have not found.

⁴⁰ He is pouring contempt upon nobles, And causeth them to wander in vacancy—no way.

⁷ Jehovah preserveth thee from all evil, He doth preserve thy soul. ⁸ Jehovah preserveth thy going out and thy coming in, From henceforth even unto the age!

⁵ Then hath Jehovah prepared Over every fixed place of Mount Zion, And over her convocations, A cloud by day, and smoke, And the shining of a flaming fire by night, That, over all honour a safe-guard, ⁶ And a covering may be, For a shadow by day from drought, And for a refuge, and for a hiding place, From inundation and from rain!

⁵ and He bringeth him out without, and saith, `Look attentively, I pray thee, towards the heavens, and count the stars, if thou art able to count them;' and He saith to him, `Thus is thy seed.'

⁹ `And I have turned unto you, and have made you fruitful, and have multiplied you, and have established My covenant with you;

⁴ `Blessed is the fruit of thy womb, and the fruit of thy ground, and the fruit of thy cattle, increase of thine oxen, and wealth of thy flock.

¹³ And he hath seven sons and three daughters; ¹⁴ and he calleth the name of the one Jemima, and the name of the second Kezia, and the name of the third Keren-Happuch. ¹⁵ And there have not been found women fair as the daughters of Job in all the land, and their father doth give to them an inheritance in the midst of their brethren. ¹⁶ And Job liveth after this a hundred and forty years, and seeth his sons, and his sons' sons, four generations;

¹⁶ There is a handful of corn in the earth, On the top of mountains, Shake like Lebanon doth its fruit, And they flourish out of the city as the herb of the earth.

² Mighty in the earth is his seed, The generation of the upright is blessed.

³ Lo, an inheritance of Jehovah are sons, A reward is the fruit of the womb. ⁴ As arrows in the hand of a mighty one, So are the sons of the young men. ⁵ O the happiness of the man Who hath filled his quiver with them, They are not ashamed, For they speak with enemies in the gate!

³ Thy wife is as a fruitful vine in the sides of thy house, Thy sons as olive plants around thy table. ⁴ Lo, surely thus is the man blessed who is fearing Jehovah. ⁵ Jehovah doth bless thee out of Zion, Look, then, on the good of Jerusalem, All the days of thy life, ⁶ And see the sons of thy sons! Peace on Israel!

³ For I pour waters on a thirsty one, And floods on a dry land, I pour My Spirit on thy seed, And My blessing on thine offspring. ⁴ And they have sprung up as among grass, As willows by streams of water.

¹⁵ and thou—thou comest in unto thy fathers in peace; thou art buried in a good old age;

⁸ and Abraham expireth, and dieth in a good old age, aged and satisfied, and is gathered unto his people.

¹⁶ And Job liveth after this a hundred and forty years, and seeth his sons, and his sons' sons, four generations; ¹⁷ and Job dieth, aged and satisfied with days.

¹⁶ With length of days I satisfy him, And I cause him to look on My salvation!

¹¹ For by me do thy days multiply, And added to thee are years of life.

²⁷ The fear of Jehovah addeth days, And the years of the wicked are shortened.

¹³ to keep the commands of Jehovah, and His statutes which I am commanding thee to-day, for good to thee?

⁸ For, ask I pray thee of a former generation, And prepare to a search of their fathers, ⁹ (For of yesterday we are, and we know not, For a shadow are our days on earth.) ¹⁰ Do they not shew thee—speak to thee, And from their heart bring forth words?

² Truly—ye are the people, And with you doth wisdom die.

¹⁷ I shew thee—hearken to me—And this I have seen and declare:

² To God is a man profitable, Because a wise man to himself is profitable?

¹¹ Lo, I have waited for your words, I give ear unto your reasons, Till ye search out sayings. ¹² And unto you I attend, And lo, there is no reasoner for Job, Or answerer of his sayings among you.

² Great are the works of Jehovah, Sought out by all desiring them.

³ For, if for intelligence thou callest, For understanding givest forth thy voice, ⁴ If thou dost seek her as silver, And as hid treasures searchest for her, ⁵ Then understandest thou fear of Jehovah, And knowledge of God thou findest.

¹² If thou hast been wise, thou hast been wise for thyself, And thou hast scorned—thyself bearest it .